* Ryan Novosielski schrieb am 31.03.08 um 16:50 Uhr:
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> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just been informed that Bacula has been accepted in Ubuntu "main",
> > which means that it will be included in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term
> > support) release, which ships the 24th of April. That release (including
> > Bacula) will be maintained for 5 years! Many thanks to the Ubuntu packagers
> > and managers who worked hard to make this happen.
> >
> > I am really pleased about this as it is another indication how accepted and
> > important the Bacula project has become in the Open Source world -- thanks to
> > everyone who have helped get us there :-)
>
> I noticed this one, actually, as I updated to the beta version of this
> release recently. Interesting, however, is that bat does NOT seem to be
> included, for reasons I don't know know. Anyone know more about this?
I only know that it is no problem to do it as I package it since
several bacula and for several ubuntu releases
(available on packman.links2linux.de)
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Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just been informed that Bacula has been accepted in Ubuntu "main",
> which means that it will be included in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term
> support) release, which ships the 24th of April. That release (including
> Bacula) will be maintained for 5 years! Many thanks to the Ubuntu packagers
> and managers who worked hard to make this happen.
>
> I am really pleased about this as it is another indication how accepted and
> important the Bacula project has become in the Open Source world -- thanks to
> everyone who have helped get us there :-)
I noticed this one, actually, as I updated to the beta version of this
release recently. Interesting, however, is that bat does NOT seem to be
included, for reasons I don't know know. Anyone know more about this?
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We're backing up 50TB so InfiniBand was the way to go. I believe it is 10
Gb. We sustain about
30MB/sec
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Steven Jones <thing@...>
wrote:
> 8><----
> > PowerEdge 2850 on Ebay will be less than $1k USD.
> >
> >
> 8><----
>
> While we have 2850s....nothing special so a similar box from IBM or HP
> would do fine, but would you want to run your backups on an out or
> warrantee server? Also its disk space is limited, it can only hold 6 x
> 300Gb scsi disks.
>
> So if 1TB is all the disk space you need, I'd consider going for a white
> box myself....depends on how many clients....if you need more than 6~8TB
> then maybe iscsi attach...
>
> regards
>
> Thing
>
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Hi,
I'm back again. I found (another) workaround which is very easy to realize:
My new storage definition is this:
Storage {
Name = FileOBC2-SSH
Address = obc2
SDPort = 9103
Password = "xxx"
Device = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Autochanger = yes
}
/etc/hosts on FD contains:
127.0.0.1 obc2
/etc/hosts on director contains:
192.168.100.161 obc2
If I do it so, I needn't a second SSH-tunnel with port forwarding or
something like that.
Perhaps this could be anything for Wiki or another documentation.
Greetings,
Thomas
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> Hello,
> I've got 4 Hosts:
> evo_www (IP 1.2.3.4) with a FD
> intern1 (IP 192.168.100.101) with a FD
> OBC (IP 192.168.100.160) with the Director (and a test-SD)
> OBC2 (IP 192.168.100.161) with a SD
> If I create a job for backup intern1 on OBC2 all is fine.
> If I start a job for backup evo_www on OBC2 I get an error.
> Before that I create a ssh-tunnel like this:
> /usr/bin/ssh -fnCN2 -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -i
> /etc/bacula/ssh/bacula -l root -R 9101:192.168.100.160:9101 -R 9103:192.168.100.161:9103 evo_www
> The tunnel is ok because if I start the OBC2-SD in debug-mode I get
> output if I started the job:
> obc2-sd: bnet.c:1154 who=client host=192.168.100.160 port=36643
> obc2-sd: job.c:207 Job name not found: evo-www.2008-03-25_21.14.28
> A lot of minutes later the FD has a timeout:
> evo-plattform1-fd: btimers.c:212 thread timer 0x80a3808 kill bsock tid=0xb70f2b90 at 1206476671.
> evo-plattform1-fd: authenticate.c:196 cram_get_auth failed for Storage daemon
> evo-plattform1-fd: job.c:208 Quit command loop. Canceled=1
> The most interesting thing for me is, that a backup of evo_www over
> SSH on OBC is successfull. The only different is the ssh-tunnel
> /usr/bin/ssh -fnCN2 -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -i
> /etc/bacula/ssh/bacula -l root -R 9101:192.168.100.160:9101 -R 9103:192.168.100.160:9103 evo_www
> My question is: why does the SD on OBC2 not know about the job? What's
> wrong?
> The SD is: 2.0.3-4ubuntu4
> The director ist: Version: 2.0.3-4ubuntu4
> I tried some hosts with different versions of FD.
> The FD is: less than 2.0.3
> I hope anobody can help me.
> Kind regards,
> Thomas Rotter

8><----
> PowerEdge 2850 on Ebay will be less than $1k USD.
>
>
8><----
While we have 2850s....nothing special so a similar box from IBM or HP
would do fine, but would you want to run your backups on an out or
warrantee server? Also its disk space is limited, it can only hold 6 x
300Gb scsi disks.
So if 1TB is all the disk space you need, I'd consider going for a white
box myself....depends on how many clients....if you need more than 6~8TB
then maybe iscsi attach...
regards
Thing

Kern Sibbald <kern@...> writes:
> I have just been informed that Bacula has been accepted in Ubuntu
> "main", which means that it will be included in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
> (long term support) release, which ships the 24th of April.
Woo hoo! Congratulations, Kern! :)
This is great news - for the Bacula project, and for Ubuntu users.
-tih
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Justin Hoeft wrote:
> In other words, we'd all like to have multi-core machines with 4's of
> gigs of RAM and Tera-bytes of hard drives in RAID configurations, but
> the fact is sometimes we have to make due with a pIII with 1 Gig of RAM
> and a 40GB hdd; after we've finished picking through the scrap heap,
> what should we be begging management for?
>
IME, Bacula itself doesn't require a stupendously fast server. However,
network backups in general require quite a bit to deliver really good
performance.
You really want to think about:
- Backup medium performance
- Disk performance of systems you're backing up.
- Network performance between servers and bacula sd server.
- Performance of database server - when you're doing backups, write
performance is of greatest concern, so several nice fast disks are a
real benefit - as is tweaking the hell out of the database.
James.
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Hello,
I have just been informed that Bacula has been accepted in Ubuntu "main",
which means that it will be included in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term
support) release, which ships the 24th of April. That release (including
Bacula) will be maintained for 5 years! Many thanks to the Ubuntu packagers
and managers who worked hard to make this happen.
I am really pleased about this as it is another indication how accepted and
important the Bacula project has become in the Open Source world -- thanks to
everyone who have helped get us there :-)
Best regards,
Kern

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have gigabit network between all the servers that I do backup from. I
> can spool to the SD-filesystem in parallel but I cannot fill the link to
> the SD-server. Conclusion must be that the filesystem on the spool area
> is the bottleneck. This seems to be worse when I have 3 jobs spooling
> and 1 despooling at the same time.
I do something similar.
For this, We've got raid0 across 4 drives - and it only just keeps up for
what you're describing (aggregate throughput about 110MB/sec, vs up to
140-150Mb/sec for sustained single file read/writes)
This is a limitation of the drive hardware (seektime, not rotational
speed), not the RAID0 setup
If you want to go faster, you'll need solid state disk drives - or a
stonking great big ramdisk. Either way isn't cheap.
AB

Bruno Friedmann schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system
>> without doing anything special.
>>
>> This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read
>> files for which he doesn't have access permissions (i.e., a file with
>> all permissions removed).
>>
> Postscriptum : be carefull, there's some users that remove also "System Account"
> and with this, there no possible backup.
> A client of mine do this on it's filesystem and was crying after having delete his file
> that we can restore them ( We previously warn him about that fact ).
>
> In windows world even God could not be God :-)
Actually, I wanted to see how hard would it be to incorporate this
feature in rsync, which uses Cygwin.
As it turns out, a recent Cygwin snapshot allows Cygwin-based programs
to open such files where Administrator is not allowed due to lack of
necessary permissions:
See the whole thread here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/threads.html#00662
So, no need to checkout Bacula's SVN anymore ;)
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system
> without doing anything special.
>
> This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read
> files for which he doesn't have access permissions (i.e., a file with
> all permissions removed).
>
Postscriptum : be carefull, there's some users that remove also "System Account"
and with this, there no possible backup.
A client of mine do this on it's filesystem and was crying after having delete his file
that we can restore them ( We previously warn him about that fact ).
In windows world even God could not be God :-)
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system
> without doing anything special.
>
> This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read
> files for which he doesn't have access permissions (i.e., a file with
> all permissions removed).
>
>
> As I see in the Bacula documentation, winbacula can use Windows Backup
> API to access such files.
>
> I wonder how hard would it be to port this feature (using Windows Backup
> API for accessing files) to other Windows software, like rsync?
>
> Where can I find sources for winbacula?
>
>
>
As indicate in the home page -> download -> svn
Couldn't be more exposed or simple :-)
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Good day.
I just found out that one of our tapes does have a wrong timestamp for "first
written". What happend?
Usually on saturday morning 0:00 o'clock our weekend backups start.
My colleague missed to change tapes on friday so the when the first job
started there were no usable tapes in it.
I changed tapes on sunday afternoon around 4:30pm.
Now what I see as timestamp for first written of that tape is the starttime of
the job starttime not the time the first byte went onto this tape.
And because we have a 48h use duration configured you can imagine what
happend. :o\
Cheers,
Michael
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Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system
without doing anything special.
This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read
files for which he doesn't have access permissions (i.e., a file with
all permissions removed).
As I see in the Bacula documentation, winbacula can use Windows Backup
API to access such files.
I wonder how hard would it be to port this feature (using Windows Backup
API for accessing files) to other Windows software, like rsync?
Where can I find sources for winbacula?
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http://wpkg.org

Hi all,
Is it in anyway possible to automatically run jobs that haven't ran
because the director daemon wasn't started. (I can of course manually
start the jobs, however all the job definitions specify incremental
and some should now become differentials and all that).
[BTW: Director daemon down was 'operator error', not any bug/failure
in the bacula daemon].
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Hi,
31.03.2008 03:37, Seth Miller wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've been running into this problem where I can't preform certain
> functions because several tables are locked. A processlist shows that
> it's just some long running DELETE and INSERT queries.
These *might* be sped up by adding some indexes. Of course, this needs
more disk space and would also benefit by more RAM.
> Currently the MySQL server, director, and storage daemon are on the
> same machine. I'm backing up 20TB and the database is roughly 90GB.
> Would going to a dedicated MySQL help me here?
It would move the botrtleneck to the network connection to the catalog
database server.
> What about splitting
> up the other components?
Wouldn't help much here, though it would free up a bit of memory and
could lead to less hard-disk accesses.
> The machine is performing backups just about 24 hours a day so taking
> it offline just for testing isn't ideal. I'd like to get as much
> information I can before I do anything drastic.
As a first step, you should find out where the problem lies. Use top,
iostat, vmstat - whatever you have - to see if the problem is memory
usage, I/O wait times, or CPU power.
If it's I/O wait due to swapping, you can either try to tune MySQL to
use less memory (which might not help much, but could) or add memory.
If it's I/O wait time, the first thing to consider is to run swap
space, Bacula spool space, possibly the bacula volumes, and the
database on different physical disks. Having those attached to
different controllers would also help. Using a fast RAID could further
improve the performance.
Regarding disks it's usually a good idea to use fast hardware RAID
controllers for MySQL tables and spool space. (But be sure the
hardware actually is faster than using software RAID...)
In general, you want to avoid that catalog accesses block access to
spooling or volume writes, so you separate these file systems as
thoroughly as possible.
And having lots of RAM and CPU power is also often helpful, but what
you could gain by it is easily checked - the system should neither
swap nor should there be a high load while I/O wait is low.
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
More details about your system (hardware, OS, performance data) would
allow a more detailed advice, I suppose.
Arno
>
> Regards,
>
> Seth
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We're using a Dell 8 core PowerEdge 2950 with 8 GB RAM, 64 bit Slackware 11,
64 bit MySQL, and an InfiniBand card going directly to the Isilon's
backplane. Wicked fast.
50 TB in ~4 days.
Oh yeah, the tape library is a Dell ML6020 with 128 LTO-4 slots.
Gary
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) <
bseklecki@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:19 -0500, Justin Hoeft wrote:
> > The question about the hard-drive spooling config begs the question,
> > "Aside from hard drive speed when spooling and unspooling, what would be
> > the best hardware configuration for a bacula director/storage daemon
> > computer?"
>
> PowerEdge 2850 on Ebay will be less than $1k USD.
>
>
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HI all, I am curious how to verify a completed job is 100% OK. In other
words, there were no errors but is there any way to validate the files
written to tape are the same files that exist on the disk?
I have the MD5 option enabled on the job but I don't know that if when each
file is written it is checksummed on both the disk and tape and verified.
Basically, when I send these tapes to Iron Mountain, I need to be 100% the
data is valid. Is there a way to verify the data on the tapes after the job
has been completed?
Thanks!
Gary